John Francis Xavier Knasas (born 1948) is an American philosopher. He is a leading existential Thomist in the

Neo-Thomist Neo-scholasticism (also known as neo-scholastic Thomism Accessed 27 March 2013 or neo-Thomism because of the great influence of the writings of Thomas Aquinas on the movement) is a revival and development of medieval scholasticism in Catholic t ...

movement, best known for engaging such thinkers as

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, Alasdair MacIntyre and Jeremy Wilkins in disputes over human cognition to affirm a

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and defending the thought of Jacques Maritain,

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and Fr. Joseph Owens. He holds the Bishop Wendelin J. Nold Endowed Chair as Professor of Philosophy at th
Center for Thomistic Studies
at the University of St. Thomas in

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and earned his doctorate at the

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, under the direction of Fr. Joseph Owens.Knasas, John Francis Xavier, Title page, ''An Analysis and Interpretation of the "Tertia Via" of St. Thomas Aquinas'' (Ph.D. diss, University of Toronto: 1975)

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Books

* ''Jacques Maritain: The Man and His Metaphysics'' 989* ''The Preface to Thomistic Metaphysics'' 991* ''Thomistic Paper VI'' (Editor)

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* ''Being and Some Twentieth Century Thomists''

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* ''Aquinas and the Cry of Rachel: Thomistic Reflections on the Problem of Evil'' (Washington DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2013).

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